Boris Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 1

Conductor: Edward Serov. Orchestra: Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra. Label: Naxos (00:00) I Moderato (10:16) II Allegro marcato (16:08) III Largo (24:00) IV Allegretto Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Чайковский; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996) was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (to whom he was not related) and especially Mussorgsky. He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he studied, who (according to Per Skans in his notes for a recording) suggested in a letter of February 1, 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that “If Barshai’s orchestra (the Moscow chamber orchestra) makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg’s Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky’s Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them“. Of his larger-scale works almost all ha